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Method for converting thermal energy into useful work

a technology of thermal energy and useful work, applied in the direction of nuclear energy generation, greenhouse gas reduction, nuclear engineering, etc., can solve the problems of short-term energy outbreak, overcome the state of absolute phase instability,

Inactive Publication Date: 2017-02-28
SOLARIS HLDG
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The invention is a method for converting thermal energy into useful work with a high efficiency. The method involves using a working medium that is in a stable phase of transition between different phases. This is achieved by interacting the working medium with an energy source and an additional low-temperature energy source in a way that allows the working medium to initiate a quantum-mechanical resonance with the low-temperature energy source. The method can be implemented with a high degree of accuracy in the phase transition points, and the range of fluctuations in the thermodynamic parameters of the working medium can be controlled. The method can be used with different compositions and can be adapted to different conditions. The invention also includes a state diagram that describes the conditions under which the different phases of the working medium can coexist.

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However, this is possible only due to the application of a special, rather complex system of recovering thermal energy of the working medium expanded after the mechanical work is performed.
However, the process of energy release in phase transition of the working medium overcoming the state of absolute phase instability develops like an avalanche.
A short-term energy outbreak occurs, which does not always serve the task of the creators of the heat engine according to this method.

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[0031]The claimed method may be implemented, for example, in a heat engine in which the working medium (hereinafter called the substrate) may be, for example, InSb—TlSb alloy in the state of interaction with a thermal energy source.

[0032]The functional diagram of a heat engine simulating set is given in FIG. 2.

[0033]It comprises a target object—substrate 1 positioned in a thermostat 2 with a temperature and pressure controller, an apparatus 3 monitoring the state of the substrate (temperature, pressure, chemical and spectral composition, external fields, thermal capacity, thermal and electrical conductivities) with high accuracy, and an automatic control system 4 for controlling the variable parameter, which includes sensors of the value of the parameter being measured or of its change rate, and a data-processing device 5. The target object is a substrate in the form of the above-mentioned InSb—TlSb alloy in a state close to phase transition. Near the dielectric-metal phase transiti...

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The invention relates to heat power engineering, in particular, to methods that use a working medium for producing useful work from heat of an external source. The method comprises interaction of the working medium with an energy source and interaction of the working medium with an additional low-temperature energy source in the form of the positron state of the Dirac's matter by means of bringing the working medium into quantum-mechanical resonance with said state. The quantum-mechanical resonance is initiated by changing at least one of the thermodynamic parameters of the working medium, while the value of spontaneous fluctuations of the variable parameter in the vicinity of the line of absolute instability in the state diagram of the working medium is predetermined, and the change step for the thermodynamic parameter is set to be lower than the predetermined value of said fluctuations.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application represents the national stage entry of PCT International Application No. PCT / IB2012 / 001932 filed Aug. 28, 2012, which claims priority to Great Britain Patent Application 1115492.9 filed Sep. 7, 2011, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety for all purposes.TECHNICAL ART[0002]The invention relates to heat power engineering, in particular to methods that use a working medium for producing useful work from heat of an external source.BACKGROUND ART[0003]A method for converting thermal energy of an external source into mechanical work is known (RU, 2078253, F03G7 / 06, 20.04.97) that increases the efficiency of a thermal generating set up to a value close to unity, i.e. up to complete conversion of heat into mechanical work.[0004]A method is known (RU, 2162161, F03G7 / 06, 20.01.2001) that provides the highest efficiency of a thermal generating set through complete conversion of the working ...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): F03G7/00G21D9/00
CPCF03G7/00G21D9/00Y02E30/00F03G7/06
Inventor UMAROV, GEORGY RAMASANOVICHBOYCHENKO, SERGEY IVANOVICHFKHEMKA, SHIV VIKRAM
Owner SOLARIS HLDG
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